VIRGINIA BEACH — The U.S. Coast Guard used a rescue boat to help transport a passenger on a cruise ship in the Chesapeake Bay to a hospital in Virginia Beach.

According to a Coast Guard press release, the captain of the ship Carnival Pride called in an alert regarding a 68-year-old male passenger in need of medical assistance. A rescue boat from Coast Guard Station Little Creek reached the cruise ship around 1:20 Monday morning, and then brought him to shore, where he was transported to Sentara Bayside Hospital in Virginia Beach.